{"id":55382,"date":"2015-07-12T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55382"},"modified":"2015-07-12T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T14:12:00","slug":"public-school-teacher-released-by-asg-bandits-in-jolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/12\/public-school-teacher-released-by-asg-bandits-in-jolo\/","title":{"rendered":"Public school teacher released by ASG bandits in Jolo"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22511\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22511\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf.jpg\" alt=\"ABU SAYYAF GROUP (Photo courtesy of the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups)\" width=\"450\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf.jpg 325w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ABU SAYYAF GROUP (Photo courtesy of the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Military pressures brought about by Joint Task Group Sulu forced the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits to release a public school teacher they were holding captive shortly after midnight Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Alan Arrojado, Joint Task Group Sulu commander, identified the victim as Russel Bagonoc.<\/p>\n<p>The former was freed by the bandits in Jolo where he was found and subsequently turned over by a concerned citizen to the headquarters of the 2nd Marine Brigade in Barangay Busbus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The said release is a result of a continuing intensive- focused military operations by Joint Task Group Sulu in the province,&#8221; Arrojado said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the continued military operations pressured the ASG to release their victim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At present, the released kidnap victim is now undergoing medical check-up at KHTB station hospital and debriefing by the 2nd Marine Brigade,&#8221; Arrojado said.<\/p>\n<p>The military said Bagonoc and his sister, Reynadeth Bagonoc-Silvano, also a teacher, were seized by the ASG in Barangay Moalboal, Talusan, Zamboanga Sibugay last March 15.<\/p>\n<p>The two were on their way to Tuburan Elementary School when snatched by the bandit group. Silvano was freed by the ASG two months later.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports said that the ASG was demanding PhP10 million for the safe release of the two public elementary school teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Military pressures brought about by Joint Task Group Sulu forced the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits to release &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}